Despite a wide variety of credits in films and television, Arte Johnson's career high point remains his four seasons on "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In," where he played, among many characters, the "verrrry interesting" German soldier Wolfgang (who always ended the show with a good night to Lucille Ball, whose show ran against "Laugh-In" on, as they say, another network) and Mr. Horneigh (pronounced "horn-EYE," but...), who approached Ruth Buzzi's Gladys Ormphby on the park bench forever wanting to show her his Walnetto (Buzzi and Mr. Johnson reprised their characters in animated form in 1977's "Baggy Pants and the Nitwits"--they were the Nitwits)--he died of heart failure after a long battle with his bladder and prostate cancer, his wife of 51 years and his brother/"Laugh-In" writer Coslough survive him:
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